Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

Representative L. After a speech M. At that time Bob Graham was chairman of the Education Committee.

Graham tried unsuccessfully to run for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination but dropped out of the race on October 6 2003. He announced his retirement from the Senate on November 3 of that year. Graham is now concentrating his efforts on the newly establiBob Grahamd Bob Graham Center for Public Service at his undergraduate alma mater the University of Florida.